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SOG 122: Enough LIV, Time To Talk the Old Course

It won’t go away but LIV Golf and all its implications can take a back seat for the next two weeks as golf hopefully celebrates everything good about the game with an Open Championship at the Old Course. Come along for the ride as Geoff Shackelford and Mike Clayton talk all things St Andrews.

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Episode 13: Following Fairways and Flying Flags with Nick Edmund of Global Golf 4 Cancer

Nick Edmund joins us on this episode to discuss his story in golf – PG Woodhouse, 1976 Open Championships, Following the Fairways and 27 other golf publications, Faldo Golf Design, 4 time cancer survivor and founder of the Global Golf 4 Cancer campaign.

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SOG 121: Joe Ogilvie talks LIV Golf

There’s probably not a lot left to say on the LIV Golf situation but when you get the chance to pick the brains of someone as smart as Joe Ogilvie you grab it.

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Feed the Ball Salon Volume 21, ft. Chris Cochran

Chris Cochran began his career building golf courses for Jack Nicklaus in the mid-1980s. With over 100 international projects completed, he is Nicklaus Design’s longest tenured senior design associate, and since the early 90s has arguably been the most…

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Episode 12: The Long Golden Afternoon – Golf’s Age of Glory – 1864 – 1914

Today we explore the days immediately after the death of young Tommy Morris – what and who were the main drivers and influencers that facilitated the transposition of the game of golf around the world during Golf’s Age of Glory.

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Raj Narayan

Our guest today is Raj Narayan. Raj is one of golf’s emerging women entrepreneurs, coming from a corporate financial and management background to apply both analytical skills and social awareness to create an online business and networking golf club, the creatively named Emajin. From someone who started out hating the game, Raj has transitioned into…

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Episode 11: George Waters – USGA Green Section Education Manager

George Waters has worn many caps throughout his career – green keeper, contractor, design/builder, course architect, course photographer, writer and educator. He joins us today to take a look at the intersection between golf course design and greenkeeping and what are some of the challenges that golfers would be wise to be more conscious about.

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Episode 80: Joe Jemsek on Dick Wilson

Joe Jemsek grew up with Dick Wilson. At least figuratively. In the early 1960s, Wilson, one of golf architecture’s most interesting and possibly misunderstood figures, designed the former America’s 100 Greatest Course Cog Hill No. 4 in Chicago,

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Episode 10: PureGolf2010 in Retrospective with Michael Goldstein

Throughout 2010 Michael Goldstein and Jamie Patton travelled around the world playing golf every day for 365 days. Their adventure started and finished at Cape Kidnappers in the Hawke’s Bay region of New Zealand – along the way they circumnavigated New Zealand, travelled across Australia and the USA, around Scotland, Wales, Ireland and England – dipped into France, Belgium, the Netherlands and UAE before a triumphant return to their homeland.

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Episode 9: Simplifying the pathway for new golfers with 1Club founder Sandy Jamieson

Sandy Jamieson from 1club.golf joins us to give us the lowdown on a simple and compelling approach to creating new pathways in golf. The 1Club approach is easy, fun, affordable, inclusive and after 15 minutes of an introduction….course based.

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